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I don't want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,698 posts.
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Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.
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I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
The Leica G9ii
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Blogging can just be stating the obvious
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile…
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The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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The Emacsification of Software
Everything looks like Emacs now: personal, complicated, idiosyncratic, and shrink-wrapped around exactly what you want it to do. Does shipping software even make sense in the long run?
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Apple Just Lost Me
AndreGarzia.com website
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Writing as a thinking tool
In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...
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Agentic Coding Is a Trap
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
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What Is Gridifcation
A 50-year comparison of Billboard’s top songs shows how recorded music became machine-perfect.
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model …
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A desktop made for one
Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything
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Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
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What being ripped off taught me
Expensive lessons
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I still prefer MCP over skills
Why I believe the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a better architectural pattern than the emerging “Skills” trend for LLM tool integration.
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How to build a printer
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.
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I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
A bungled Assetnote scan
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Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
One of the questions of the 2026 acx prediction contest is whether Nvidia’s stock price will close below $100 on any day in 2026. At the time of writing, it trades at $184 and a bit, so going down to $100 would be a near halving of the stock value of the highest valued company in the world.
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The git history command
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so …
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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Customize the look and feel of tmux
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Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Nothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.
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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away from civilization. The most important habit I’ve found for not getting lost is to be very…
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
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Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its...
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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
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The End of an Era
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans — at […]
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Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made for sexual health services, how many children are likely to be…
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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear alge…
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all…
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I switched from VSCode to Zed
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...